By Tony Bates, on January 23rd, 2010
Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium
The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:
One year or less
mobile computing
open content
Two to [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 22nd, 2009
The Online Educa Berlin 2009 conference, as usual, has a number of interesting sessions planned for its up-coming conference, December 2-4th, 2009. Among them is:
The Future of Learning
Are we meeting the needs of our students? This crucial question will be one of the hot topics at this year’s OEB, and the three keynote speakers at [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 13th, 2009
Nicholson, P. (2009) Information-rich and attention-poor Globe and Mail, September 12
In one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, Peter Nicholson, the President of the Council of Canadian Academies (formerly named Academy of Sciences), writes about the impact of new information technology on the nature of knowledge. He makes a number of arguments, among [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 20th, 2008
Anderson, J. and Rainie, L. (2008) The Future of the Internet III Pew Internet & American Life Project
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the [...]
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